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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by skratchpixels »

ollerac wrote: post #63
skratchpixels wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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For anyone who doesn't know, it's currently in the Code of Conduct, at the very bottom: > And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

Thank you for the information. I didn't know it was added on.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by warent »

gtirloni wrote: post #73
raldi wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, anyone used to reading Google press releases knows that a subject line of, "An Update on X" always means X is being shut down, and thus, "A letter from Larry and Sergey" could mean nothing else except they're stepping down.

This meme has to die. It's time.

When the entire culture of a multibillion dollar megacorporation has become one big meme, there's not much that can be done

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by footpath »

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/1203/

Slightly more organized info in the intro bullets.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the CEO and President, respectively, of Alphabet, have decided to leave these roles. They will continue their involvement as co-founders, shareholders and members of Alphabet’s Board of Directors.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by ixtli »

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #65
ixtli wrote: post #22

> Nonetheless, Google’s core service—providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information—remains at the heart of the company. How is it ok to just say clear lies like this?! Without making any value judgements at all this is blatantly false. The ranking algorithms specifically encode a bias into search results. This is actually explicitly what users want, too! To be clear this is distressing to me because ve…

I cannot tell if you are being serious or you are brainwashed. My understanding of Google's history is their algorithms started as providing answers that the world already knew but could not find easily. Over time they had to handle multiple lawsuits, harassments by entrenched groups that were upended by opening up of knowledge. These adjustments / reactions made the algorithm look biased. This disputed quote by Card…

You're reading far too much into what im saying. I'm not calling google a bad actor (though certainly I think they can be for reasons that have little to do with the search algorithm.) I'm saying that there is bias encoded here and, further as i thought was clear, im not saying this is a bad thing.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by rvz »

Rapzid wrote: post #35

The whole thing reads like it was written by a PR person.

Well it isn't everyday you hear the original CEOs of FAANG companies stepping down these days.

First you heard Gates, then Jobs (Twice) and now Page and Brin. We'll see if whether if Pichai can continue this now that he has been crowned King of Alphabet and Google.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by Rapzid »

throwwwawayyy wrote: post #27

Posting this as throwaway because, well, obvious. The heat is on Google and its founders. It goes beyond anything that’s in the press right now. The real question is if regulators and others will allow Sundar to take the heat for everything and keep Larry and Sergey from the “hassle” of having to testify about anti-competitive practices and a whole range of other issues. And then there are the “hobbies” of the early…

When you say "hobbies" are you alluding to sex tourism and Casa De Epstein type stuff?

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by papayawhip »

gtirloni wrote: post #73
raldi wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, anyone used to reading Google press releases knows that a subject line of, "An Update on X" always means X is being shut down, and thus, "A letter from Larry and Sergey" could mean nothing else except they're stepping down.

This meme has to die. It's time.

An Update On This Meme

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by shadowgovt »

rosybox wrote: post #7

Alphabet and Google being a separate company makes even less sense now.

It's a line-item hack, the way that Hollywood studios structure films to be separate sub-corporations with their own fixed budgets.

So if a film crew, say, accidentally blows up a small town somehow, there's a firewall between the assets that were dedicated to making that one film and the entirety of, for example, Sony Pictures net worth and capital.

I'm not sure that firewall is well-tested in American law, but it's a well-used approach and I've always assumed the Google / Alphabet arrangement was for similar reasons (so that worst-case scenario on any 'bet is always "Alphabet cuts bait and shuts it down, liquidates it, and debtors go after the assets of the 'bet" without risking the performance numbers of the Google cash cow directly).

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